Soft jazz and pop-based chord progressions, simple and compelling melodies, minimal beats and modern, gauzy production values permeate Dream Lounge, a super-smooth modern R&B construction kit. You get eight folders full of 103 slow jam loops in a wide assortment of motifs. With basses, drums, keys, pads, arpeggios, melodic stacks, synths, and vocals, the collection is bonded by a finely understated sense of modern neo-soul in every sense—minimal beats with deep spaces, smooth and chimey chord progressions with great voicing, and immersive textures with the kind of spacey abstractions that the most imaginative producers of modern R&B are into. The vocal folder illustrates this—the clear, dry, and simple sung phrases can blend unobtrusively with the music, almost to the point of escaping notice—they can become a part of the bed. For Dream Lounge, producer Ethan Martin favored a simple acoustic kit drum approach instead of the usual machine beats, which works well to tip the collection over to a more organic feel. Use Dream Lounge to frame a sensitive soul singer, make some study beats and roll music anytime you need universal happiness, pleasure and relaxation—the sound and feel of Dream Lounge is everywhere, and today’s trending neo-soul movement is taking producers deeper all the time.